System requirements


Before you deploy the product, make sure that your environment meets the hardware and software requirements. To plan the deployment, see Planning-a-fresh-deployment.


A root or non-root user can deploy this product. The following items are required for deployment.


BMC Helix IT Service Management version 21.3.06 requires BMC Helix IT Operations Management (BMC Helix Platform services deployment) 23.1.02 Hotfix 1. 

The following table shows the supported technologies for BMC Helix IT Service Management and BMC Helix IT Operations Management23.1.02 Hotfix 1:

BMC Helix Platform services version

BMC Helix IT Service Management version

Supported technologies

23.1.02 Hotfix 1

21.3.06

Kubernetes 1.20 1.24

OpenShift 4.9 4.11

Nginx Ingress Controller 1.2.0, 1.5.1

Helm 3.x

For more information about applying the hotfix, see Installing BMC Helix Platform services 23.1.02, Upgrading BMC Helix Platform services version from 22.4 to 23.1.02, or Upgrading BMC Helix Platform services version from 22.2.01 to 23.1.02.


Harbor repository requirements

The HTTPS protocol is required for the Harbor registry.

Make sure that your system meets the following requirements to access images from a local Harbor repository:

For information about setting up Harbor repository, see Setting-up-a-Harbor-registry-in-a-local-network-and-synchronizing-it-with-BMC-DTR.


Browser support


Namespaces

Create a namespace to deploy both BMC Helix IT Operations Management and BMC Helix Logging.

For more information about creating a namespace, see Creating-a-namespace-for-deploying-BMC-Helix-IT-Operations-Management.


Requirements for BMC Helix IT Operations Management products

In addition to the requirements added so far in this document, the following items are required for BMC Helix IT Operations Management products, including BMC Helix Continuous Optimization:

 

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